tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5045440976364855299..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Searching For The Origins Of FascismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-16542544488408203872017-03-12T04:51:33.351-04:002017-03-12T04:51:33.351-04:00The link between Wagner and Hitler runs very deep....The link between Wagner and Hitler runs very deep. While Wagner started out being more or less a progressive during the 1848 revolutionary upheavals he turned virulently anti-Semitic and German nationalist in his old age, which views were carried on by his wife, Cosima, the daughter of Liszt, who would become close to Houston Stewart Chamberlain, whose book, the The Foundation of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1899, essentially codified Nazi doctrine of a race war between Aryans and evil Semites. Both Chamberlain and Cosima liszt von Bulow Wagner would live long enough to meet Hitler and lay their hands of approvoal on him at Bayreuth in 1923 just prior to his botched beer hall putsch in Munich.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-11027686646077253972017-03-11T19:41:25.551-05:002017-03-11T19:41:25.551-05:00Not only was Wagner Hitler's favorite composer...Not only was Wagner Hitler's favorite composer (at least that's what Dolphi claimed, I've heard he actually spent more time listening to Lehar), but it was apparently hearing a performance of Rienzi as a young man in Vienna inspired him to climb the heights. I've also heard that the conductor of that performance was Mahler, of course a Jew, as was Lehar.<br /><br />Gene O'GradyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com